Key takeaways from Putin’s address on NATO’s conflict with Moscow, force modernization, and the war in Ukraine

The Russian president talked with the country’s top military leaders and talked about a number of security issues.

During a long meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Defense on Wednesday, President Vladimir Putin said that Russia is facing almost all of NATO’s military power in the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

The Russian president also talked about what led to the current conflict with Kiev and how important it is to update the country’s nuclear capabilities in order to keep the country’s sovereignty.

Here is a summary of Putin’s speech’s key ideas.

Conflict with the West

Putin claimed that since they saw Russia as being “too big” and a threat, Moscow’s “strategic opponents” have always sought to “cut down” and “break up” the country. He pointed out that the West had been working toward this goal for centuries.

Putin says that even though Russia has always wanted to join the “civilized world” and worked to do so, it now knows that it is not welcome there.

Ukraine as a country of brothers

According to Putin, Russia tried everything it could for years to establish not just cordial but also brotherly ties with Ukraine, but nothing succeeded, adding that “we have always considered Ukrainians to be a brotherly people.”

“I still have that belief. Everything that is taking place is tragic. Our shared tragedy However, that is not the result of our policies, the president stated.

He continued by pointing out that Russia’s geopolitical adversaries have begun to employ a variety of strategies to promote their objectives, including interfering in the domestic affairs of former Soviet republics, particularly Ukraine, which ultimately sparked the present confrontation with Kiev. The president said that it was now “inevitable” because of this.

NATO opposes Russia.

Putin said that NATO was using the military power of almost all of its member states against Moscow right now.

He said, though, that Russia had learned a great deal from its previous errors and would not endanger itself by militarizing the country.
Putin vowed, “We will not militarize the country, and we will not militarize the economy,” emphasizing that Russia’s present state of growth did not call for such actions.

He went on to say that the Russian military’s top leaders have been told to look into NATO’s plans and capabilities and take them into account when preparing and equipping their own forces.

atomic triad

Putin stated that Russia’s nuclear arsenal is the primary safeguard for its sovereignty, saying that new weapons will soon be put into use and pledging to expand the nation’s defensive capabilities.

The president said that the nuclear triad, which includes missiles fired from planes, submarines, and mobile launchers and silos on land, would be kept and improved.

enhancing the military might of Russia

The president stressed the necessity of increasing the use of drones by the Russian military and mentioned the nation’s expertise in creating underwater unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which he said could be developed to produce more sophisticated air and ground drones.

Since quick and automated methods have always worked better than manual ones on the battlefield, he suggested that communication networks be updated and AI technologies be used at all levels of decision-making.

In response to NATO’s plan to increase its forces along Russia’s border and Sweden and Finland’s plans to join, the president also gave the defense minister permission to make a number of structural changes.